Table 5 Correlations between effective accumulated temperature and other indices.

From: Elastic sowing dates with low seeding rate for grain yield maintenance in mechanized large-scale double-cropped rice production

Yield

Panicle m−2

Spikelet Panicle−1

Filling ratio

Grain weight

Aboveground biomass

Harvest index

Early rice (ER)

SO–TP

−0.12

−0.08

0.39

−0.11

−0.36

0.16

−0.21

TP–FH

0.19

0.92***

−0.45

−0.78**

−0.69*

0.85***

−0.82**

FH–MA

−0.33

0.02

0.07

−0.45

−0.35

0.14

−0.46

Total

−0.01

0.75**

−0.25

−0.86***

−0.80**

0.80**

−0.92***

Late rice (LR)

SO–TP

−0.70**

0.02

−0.56*

−0.35

0.18

0.59*

−0.21

TP–FH

0.47

0.09

0.52*

0.19

−0.40

0.50

0.01

FH–MA

0.73**

−0.42

0.21

0.68**

0.15

0.25

0.54

Total

0.63*

−0.17

0.40

0.46

−0.19

0.40

0.27

  1. SO, sowing stage; TP, transplanting stage; FH, full heading stage; MA, mature stage. *, ** and *** denote significant differences at the 0.05, 0.01 and 0.001 probability level, respectively.